Hi,
Please check the read-write permission of the mount point
of ur floppy. I think the read permission is not there. U can do
it using the following the command line
chmod +r /mnt/floppy
Archan Paul
Lateral Linux Labs
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Ashley Moore/Salmaniya/BatelcoNotes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> HELP !!!
> I'm having a bit of a problem. I hope someone can help me out.
> I have Mandrake 7.0 running on my home computer (AMD K6 III) I canonly read
> from the floppy drive, but not able to write anything to it. the disk
> becomes unusable after that. The same drive works fine in Win98 and WinNT.
> I have verified all BIOS settings,etc. Reading info from a disk in the
> drive works well, but writing always fails, right from the time of
> installation when I was prompted to make a boot disk. Has anybody faced
> this problem? I'm still very much a linux newbie.
> Do you need more diagnostic info to pin-point my problem. just lemme know.
>
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